In contemporary philosophy, a brute fact is a fact that cannot be explained in terms of a deeper, more "fundamental" fact.[1][2] There are two main ways to explain something: say what "brought it about", or describe it at a more "fundamental" level.[citation needed] For example, a cat displayed on a computer screen can be explained, more "fundamentally", in terms of certain voltages in bits of metal in the screen, which in turn can be explained, more "fundamentally", in terms of certain subatomic particles moving in a certain manner. If one were to keep explaining the world in this way and reach a point at which no more "deeper" explanations can be given, then one would have found some facts which are brute or inexplicable, in the sense that we cannot give them an ontological explanation. As it might be put, there may exist some things that just are.
To reject the existence of brute facts is to think that everything can be explained ("Everything can be explained" is sometimes called the principle of sufficient reason).
In contemporary philosophy, a brutefact is a fact that cannot be explained in terms of a deeper, more "fundamental" fact. There are two main ways to explain...
depends on a particular interpretation of the underlying facts and ruling of the court. Brutefact Common misconceptions Consensus reality Counterfactual...
does not only refer to a brutefact, or the factuality of a concrete historical situation, e.g. "born in the '80s." Facticity is something that already...
Following Newton, it became customary to accept action at a distance as brutefact, and to overlook the philosophical problems involved in so doing. Members...
the model to experimental data is an ab initio approach. Abstraction Brutefact Law of thought Present Clean room implementation Primitive notion First...
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thought and so assist in discrediting completely the world of reality". Brutefact Common knowledge Common misconception Consensus theory of truth Conventional...
idea of death can be funny, the suggestion of it can be funny, but the brutefact of it never can be." He added the movie "becomes a bloody assault on the...
logically possible worlds. Therefore, Swinburne used the term "ultimate brutefact" for the existence of God. Ananke Modal logic Platonism A priori and a...
John Searle, mental facts may be intentional or nonintentional, depending on whether or not they are directed at something. Brutefact is and ought problem...
Similarly to the way in which gravity appears to be an inexplicable brutefact of nature, the case of qualia may be one in which we are either lacking...
less fine-tuned than often claimed, or that accepting fine tuning as a brutefact is less astonishing than the idea of an intelligent creator. Furthermore...
Anti-naturalistic Fallacy: Evolutionary Moral Psychology and the Insistence of BruteFacts". Evolutionary Psychology. 4: 33–48. doi:10.1177/147470490600400102....
in order to ascertain facts about its object. Peirce also usually held that an index does not have to be an actual individual fact or thing, but can be...
essence behind the apparition[clarification needed]. It is what it is, a brutefact, and what one must now examine is the conditions that are necessary for...
Elizabeth Anscombe in "On BruteFacts", Searle distinguishes between brutefacts, like the height of a mountain, and institutional facts, like the score of a...
occur in succession through time, and it is the action itself that is the brutefact, not an underlying value scale. It is pointless to judge the actions of...
The Brute Man is a 1946 American horror thriller film starring Rondo Hatton as the Creeper, a murderer seeking revenge against the people he holds responsible...
proportion of truth in the hypothesis. Every inquiry, whether into ideas, brutefacts, or norms and laws, arises from surprising observations in one or more...
Anti-naturalistic Fallacy: Evolutionary Moral Psychology and the Insistence of BruteFacts". Evolutionary Psychology. 4 (1): 34–48. doi:10.1177/147470490600400102...